Bot þurȝ þe eggyng of Eve he ete of an apple
Þat enpoysened alle peplez þat parted fro hem boþe,
For a defence þat watz dyȝt of Dryȝtyn selven,
And a payne þeron put and pertly halden.
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Þe defence watz þe fryt þat þe freke towched, [MS. towched retraced like the rest of the last words in ll. 245-52 by second hand (see Introd., pp. viii-ix).]
And þe dom is þe deþe þat drepez uus alle.
Al in mesure and meþe watz mad þe veng[a]unce, [MS. (second hand), M. vengiaunce; the crowding of the second stroke of u before c, and the extension of the line over u (abbrev. for n) seem to show that the corrector has made iau out of the scribe's original au, cf. scribe's spelling in other instances, 744, 1013; Pat. 284.]
And efte amended wyth a mayden þat make had never. [MS. (second hand), M 1. had; M 2. hade.]
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IV. GOD'S WARNING TO NOAH
Bot in þe þryd watz forþrast al þat þryve schuld:
Þer watz malys mercyles and mawgre much scheued,
Þat watz for fylþe upon folde þat þe folk used,
Þat þen wonyed in þe worlde wythouten any may|sterz. [M. [þ]at, but þ seems to me as legible as initial þ in two lines preceding, all extremely faint.]
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Hit wern þe fayrest of forme and of face als, [folio 64b]
Þe most and þe myriest þat maked wern ever,
Þe styfest, þe stalworþest þat stod ever on fete,
And lengest lyf in hem lent of ledez alle oþer;
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For hit was þe forme-foster þat þe folde bred, [MS. ffor, the r resembles a modern x, and is unlike either of the scribe's r's (cf. broþer, 924, and see Introd., p. ix); MS., M., Sk. forme-foster; M. note, Fi. forme-fosterez.]
Þe aþel aunceterez sunez þat Adam watz called,
To wham God hade geven alle þat gayn were,
Alle þe blysse boute blame þat bodi myȝt have,
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And þose lykkest to þe lede þat lyved next after; [MS., M., Sk. lede; M. in notes ledes(?), accepted by Fi.]
